'CSI' producer: 'Bieber role is explosive'

Carol Mendelsohn has described Justin Bieber's upcoming appearance on the season premiere of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as "explosive".

The executive producer told MTV News that the 16-year-old was a perfect fit for the show and filmed his role as troubled teen Jason McCann in only one day.

"I got a call that Justin really was a fan of CSI [and] that's all I have to hear, and so it was just perfect timing. Justin was looking to make his dramatic acting debut. We had an incredible role for a young actor in [our season premiere], so it just seemed like the perfect marriage," she explained.

"There was one day that Justin had available and that was the day he came to [the set] and filmed his four scenes for the premiere. We will introduce his character in the premiere in September and then it will be a character arc and we will see him again playing Jason McCann again in February."

Mendelsohn added that she thinks Bieber was the "perfect choice" to play the character of Jason.

"He's a troubled young man, raised in the foster care system, whose hard-luck life has left him scarred and angry. When we first meet Jason, we meet him at a community center where he's giving a testimonial in honor of a man who takes Jason and his older brother in when they had no-one else, and that man is now in jail and Jason's brother is out for revenge and looking for payback," she said.

"And the CSIs are looking for the brother and Jason is caught in the middle. At the end of the episode, we're left with the question: Is Jason a good kid stuck in a bad situation or is Jason a bad kid hiding behind his cuteness? You can see why Justin was such a perfect choice to play this role... It's an explosive story."